Sylvia Cooper: City Ink: There’s plenty going on besides the hurricane
Here on the farm, we were busy all day Thursday getting ready for the big blow. I was filling empty gallon milk jugs with water.
As usual, I was multitasking, filling the jugs and talking on the phone, which my shoulder was pressing to my ear until it slipped and fell into water that had spilled from the hose. I picked it up right quick and dried it off. Then, when I tried to charge it up Friday morning, nothing happened. So I tried another socket. It still wouldn't charge. Then I remembered dropping it.
So I did what former Sheriff
So now I have my phone sitting in a bag of Uncle Ben's original parboiled long grain rice.
With the early deadline and no phone to call anybody, I thought about not writing anything this week, but I have so much to tell you about the
I also want to tell you about Mayor
And I want to bring you up to date on the little red stray puppy.
No Warnings: But first I want to tell you about a book I read just in time for hurricane season. From "The Gulf, The Making of an
And the thing that made the biggest impression reading about hurricanes was how they came in and killed hundreds and thousands of people who had no warning what was on the way. For example:
On
After attending a ball the night before, they awoke to gale-force winds, pounding surf and rain the morning of
There are many other more terrible hurricanes that caught people unaware, including the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed an estimated 10,000 people, more than the combined totals of the 1889 Johnstown flood and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Taxpayers Won't Know What Hit Them Either: An
The base fee will be
The city will accept what insurance, Medicare and Medicaid pay and not bill patients for the rest.
"So now taxes will have to go up to pay for more fire ambulances, and they are getting billed," Vincent said. "But hey, they said they won't send anyone to collections. So what reason is there to pay a bill?"
Vincent said Sias and James have bashed Gold Cross about its no transport fee for more than a year.
"Sias has bashed us at his breakfast," Vincent said. "Now they are coming out saying they are going to charge a response fee. It is absurd. They actually used that as a reason the zone needed to be open, that we were charging people just for showing up."
The Truth
For example, James said he hasn't met with other ambulance companies ahead of the RFP, but Vincent said he's had discussions with plenty of companies.
"I've been informed
"He has met with them. It will come out. It would probably be best for him to just be honest. He needs to come clean and admit who he discussed this RFP with because these people should be disqualified from bidding.
"At the commission meeting this week,
To Be Continued: Too bad. I'm out of space and will have to catch you up on the mayor's response to my FOI request and the little red stray puppy next week. Do want to say though that he is NOT a pit bull as I at first thought. The puppy, that is. Not at all. And he still needs a home, although he thinks he's found one.
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